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We've pulled together a list of some of the top trends to watch out for in health, development, and humanitarian fields, per NPR and Goats and Soda: Cholera: The bacterial infection is on the rise again, with more than 5,000 deaths in 2023, more than in any other year since the World Health Organization was established in the 19th century.
Cholera funding crisis: The UN says it's faced the "worst shortfall in funding for years."
In 2023, it received just over one-third of the $57 billion it needed.
The target for 2024 has been scaled back to helping 181 million people, rather than the 245 million originally targeted.
Gender apartheid: The activist who was shot in the head by the Taliban as a teen for advocating girls' education called for the codifying of gender apartheid at the international level in a December speech, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last year that "unprecedented, systemic attacks on women's and girls' rights and the flouting of international obligations are creating gender-based apartheid."
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